OUR ADVISORY BOARD

Thank you for sharing your talents and encouraging the worlds girls through your generousness.

Dr. Cheryl Dellasega

Cheryl Dellasega is a Professor of Humanities in the College of Medicine and Professor of Women’s Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Dellasega teaches medical students in the Department of Humanities and conducts research on psychosocial issues. She is an international expert on family relationship and relational aggression (RA), a form of bullying used by females. She is the author of five nonfiction books on issues affecting women: Forced to be Family (Wiley, 2007), Mean Girls Grown Up (Wiley, 2005), The Starving Family (Champion Press, 2005), Girl Wars (2003), and Surviving Ophelia (2001). As the founder of Club and Camp Ophelia™ she has helped diverse groups of girls confront and overcome relational aggression. "I was given materials about Fingersmears to review and was immediately inspired to go to your website. Although you work with all age groups, we share a focus on girls, and know that art is a great approach to promote what many of them need: an outlet for expressing emotions that builds rather than breaks down relationships. Fingersmears also offers a wonderful opportunity for dialogue across ages and cultures. "

Nancy Montvydas

Nancy is the Senior Director of Development at Soroptimist International of the Americas. Nancy connected with Kelly because of a Fingersmears that successfully built commitment and buy-in for a new online community focused on improving the lives of women and girls. Kelly's commitment to making the world a better place for women and girls, both personally and professionally, is what drew her to support Mighty Fingers Facing Change. She sees the project as a wonderful opportunity for girls to make their dreams real and celebrate being a girl so that they can grow into becoming strong women."We believe Kelly's Global FingerSmears Project will call attention on a grand scale, and in a positive way, to the dreams girls around the world hold in their hearts, and will reaffirm their right to pursue those dreams. We hope women's and girls' organizations - and anyone interested in empowering the world's girls - will be moved to join us in supporting "Mighty Fingers - Facing Change." Elizabeth Lucas ED & CEOSoroptimist International

Tiffany Shlain

Honored by Newsweek as one of the “Women Shaping the 21st Century,” Tiffany Shlain is a filmmaker, founder of the Webby Awards, and co-founder of The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences. A celebrated thinker and catalyst, Tiffany is known for her ability to illuminate complex ideas in culture, science, technology and life through her unique films, dynamic talks, and innovative projects. Tiffany's new film Connected, is to help create a global conversation about what it means to be connected in the 21st century. She hopes people will explore this subject on a personal and global level. Tiffany believes that by engaging people to talk about connectedness in their own lives and in the world, the ripple effect of these conversations will have far reaching impact for good that will creates lasting change."While the idea that everything is connected is not new, the world today is more complex and interdependent than ever –and we, as a species have evolved to create tools that connect us in many new ways. And yet it seems difficult for us rise above and see how the major issues of our day are interlinked. Kelly's Global FingerSmear project is another great way to remind not only girls, but everyone that interacts with the project how important and powerful that connection can be."